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TOP NEWS
Split 7th Circ. Backs Ill. County's Win In COVID Vax Bias Suit
By Celeste Bott
The Seventh Circuit in a split decision Monday affirmed a summary judgment win for Cook County, Illinois, in a former hospital pharmacist's suit alleging she was unlawfully fired after she refused a COVID-19 vaccine, with the majority holding the county proved a religious exemption would've posed undue hardship and one dissenting judge saying the case should go to a jury.
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REGIONAL POWERHOUSES
Illinois Powerhouse: Willkie
By Celeste Bott
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has parlayed a six-lawyer Chicago launch in 2020 into an operation with more than 130 attorneys, adding significant transactional practices while scoring high-profile results for clients such as Northwestern University, Google and Saks Global, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2026 Regional Powerhouses.
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POLICY & REGULATION
ENFORCEMENT
LITIGATION
SEVENTH CIRCUIT
7th Circ. Backs DHS Drug Informant's Conviction
By Parker Quinlan
A former confidential informant for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security who "went rogue" during a narcotics investigation and began selling drugs on the side cannot have his conviction overturned, the Seventh Circuit ruled, saying evidence found in a warrantless search would have been discovered anyway.
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EXPERT ANALYSIS
HPE-Juniper Settlement Teaches Key Tunney Act Lessons
A California federal court's recent approval of the U.S. Department of Justice's settlement with Hewlett Packard over its Juniper Networks acquisition offers legal practitioners some crucial lessons, including on unique tech-sector remedies for mergers and acquisitions and the continued viability of the Tunney Act, says Shubha Ghosh at Syracuse University College of Law.
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LEGAL INDUSTRY
3rd Circ. Affirms Thomson Reuters' Westlaw AI Copyright Win
By Ivan Moreno
The Third Circuit on Tuesday upheld Thomson Reuters' victory against Ross Intelligence Inc. in the first U.S. appellate ruling to address whether artificial intelligence training can be fair use of copyrighted material, upholding a Delaware federal court's decision that the startup infringed Westlaw headnotes by using material derived from them to develop an AI-powered legal search tool.
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